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Dynamics GP

Calculate Specific Employee Labor Rates in GP Manufacturing Without Payroll Processing

Payroll Processing is not required in order for Microsoft Dynamics GP Manufacturing to calculate labor according to specific employee pay rates. For WIP to use an employee’s pay rate, the WIP settings need to be correct. In addition, the Pay Code needs to be linked to the Labor Code of the routing sequence, and the

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Management Reporter: Dynamic Forecast (Conditional Columns)

By using the Conditional Print Control available in the Management Reporter column layout a user can easily create a forecast incorporating both Actual and Budgeted amounts. For example, let’s assume we have a 12 month calendar fiscal year. Create a column layout with 26 columns. The first column would be for the row description and

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Management Reporter does not display GL account descriptions

The problem report was built with a row set listing the full range of main accounts (+Main = [????], for ease of maintenance), and a column set which included DESC and ACCT columns. Drilling down on the main report page for the account list displayed the account string and correct period amounts, but some of

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A Window is Not Visible: How to Move Off-Screen Windows Back into View

Every once-in-a-while we receive a call from a client who launched an application, but the application didn’t show up on their screen. They confirmed in the taskbar that the application was running. However, the window was not visible on their screen. If you use a secondary monitor, and/or if you operate within a remote desktop

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Management Reporter 2012 error when you sign in to a company: “The connection to the Microsoft Dynamics GP database failed"

We had a recent error message come up when attempting to set the default company within management reporter. The message stated the following: “Microsoft Management Reporter 2012 error when you sign in to a company: “The connection to the Microsoft Dynamics GP database failed.” The sa user was still able to access the companies, yet

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Dynamics GP transaction will not post

One of our clients called for assistance with a receivables batch which refused to post. GP did not return any error messages, and the user had sufficient permissions to post this batch. The DYNSA user was able to post this batch in the test company, but not in the live company. When posting was attempted

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A Unique and Powerful Quality Management Solution!

If you’re like most companies, your current quality management system is a cumbersome manual processes that involves a vast array of spreadsheets. You’re constantly wrestling with how to collect the many types of data you need – and after that, how to organize the data so that it can be reviewed and communicated effectively. I

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Take Control of your "Control Acounts"

Over the years I have seen accounting departments continually spend time reconciling their sub-ledgers (Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable) to their respective GL control accounts. Inevitably the reasons for these differences arise from individuals erroneously keying these accounts on AP and AR transactions. Or, general journal entries being recorded to those same control accounts creating

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Grant Microsoft Dynamics GP Users Rights to Administer User Account & Access

We recently were working with a Dynamics GP client that has hundreds of users. They needed to give their IT department the ability to administer GP users and user access without giving them the DYNSA password. We found no documentation on how to accomplish this. So by trial and error we came up with a

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